This and this and this.
There is no honour in betraying your friends.
Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.
For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?
Patroclus,' he said. He was always better with words than I.
She wants you to be a god," I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.
But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad ha...
And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.""But what if he is your friend?" Achilles had asked him, feet kic...
I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I di...
I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S."Go," she says. "...
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Ch...
